Dumbphones are great, till you've actually used a smartphone. It's hard to convey the smartphone experience to dumbphone users - it's more than just email, web and apps - it's a paradigm change that speeds up your access to information from 10s of seconds to seconds. With this dramatic change, you start going about your business and life differently.
I wish they would apply the same distaste for violence to the sale of real guns and arms - that's what actually hurts people, not the boom and splat of video games.
Why are we hearing about one of the coolest pieces of technology developed in the last 30 years in a tabloidesque news bulletin? Another area that could benefit from wikileaks.
A very respected psychology researcher recently published a paper producing purported statistical evidence for "psi", i.e. phenomena that cannot be explained by known science. The author carried out a long and detailed study on his students: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html and concluded that the effect of 'psi' was 'statistically significant'. The evidence was severely criticized by his peers - in particular is a dismissive rebuttal to the work cited in the same article. Links to the papers lie therein as well.
The outlook I have had, reinforced by these studies is that it doesn't hurt to dab a toe on the other side (i.e., in favor of pseudo sciences) every now and then. It helps you think out of the box of known science and understanding. It's like exploring a landscape by following the stars rather than your GPS and compass. You may venture into uncharted territory more easily with the former.
Great job guys, that posting just took out Betanews.com. Dunno when these news sites'll learn and stop carrying articles on Google... Or maybe they should just block Google articles from Slashdotters - since we get to know everything that happens anyway...
It's important to understand that commerce was never the goal of open source development and it still isn't. Most people who write open source software do so because they like to, and can, by virtue of having the time outside of their day jobs (yes, there are people like Ingo Molnar who get paid to hack on the kernel but there are very few of them). If you try to sell an OSS software, you're competing with 100s of people who will clone your effort and give it away for free - because it's the activity of 'hacking' and writing software that drives them, not the commerce behind the product. This is why it's hardly a surprise that many people who've tried making a living of selling OSS have failed.
IMO, the only way to make money off OSS is by exploiting it - by putting it on devices and selling the devices - since nobody's ever going to clone a device and give it away for free, by packaging up different libraries and software and turning them into a web service, since again, nobody's ever going to buy server space and give away your niche web services for free.
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I think what you mean is it still doesn't work for you. Some things suck less than they did in 2003, but not this.
Dumbphones are great, till you've actually used a smartphone. It's hard to convey the smartphone experience to dumbphone users - it's more than just email, web and apps - it's a paradigm change that speeds up your access to information from 10s of seconds to seconds. With this dramatic change, you start going about your business and life differently.
I wish they would apply the same distaste for violence to the sale of real guns and arms - that's what actually hurts people, not the boom and splat of video games.
Why are we hearing about one of the coolest pieces of technology developed in the last 30 years in a tabloidesque news bulletin? Another area that could benefit from wikileaks.
'nuff said
Need I say more.
A very respected psychology researcher recently published a paper producing purported statistical evidence for "psi", i.e. phenomena that cannot be explained by known science. The author carried out a long and detailed study on his students: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/science/06esp.html and concluded that the effect of 'psi' was 'statistically significant'. The evidence was severely criticized by his peers - in particular is a dismissive rebuttal to the work cited in the same article. Links to the papers lie therein as well. The outlook I have had, reinforced by these studies is that it doesn't hurt to dab a toe on the other side (i.e., in favor of pseudo sciences) every now and then. It helps you think out of the box of known science and understanding. It's like exploring a landscape by following the stars rather than your GPS and compass. You may venture into uncharted territory more easily with the former.
has been in 3D for centuries.
Maybe one of the cybercriminals he was chasing stole his identity and went into hiding
Great job guys, that posting just took out Betanews.com. Dunno when these news sites'll learn and stop carrying articles on Google... Or maybe they should just block Google articles from Slashdotters - since we get to know everything that happens anyway...
It's important to understand that commerce was never the goal of open source development and it still isn't. Most people who write open source software do so because they like to, and can, by virtue of having the time outside of their day jobs (yes, there are people like Ingo Molnar who get paid to hack on the kernel but there are very few of them). If you try to sell an OSS software, you're competing with 100s of people who will clone your effort and give it away for free - because it's the activity of 'hacking' and writing software that drives them, not the commerce behind the product. This is why it's hardly a surprise that many people who've tried making a living of selling OSS have failed. IMO, the only way to make money off OSS is by exploiting it - by putting it on devices and selling the devices - since nobody's ever going to clone a device and give it away for free, by packaging up different libraries and software and turning them into a web service, since again, nobody's ever going to buy server space and give away your niche web services for free.